National Land Code (Revised - 2020) · Updated to 15 Oct 2020 · Chapter 3 · Forfeiture
234. Power of forfeiture
Feedback & supportEvery lease, sublease or tenancy exempt from registration, whether granted before or after the commencement of this Act, shall, subject to any express provision therein to the contrary, be liable to forfeiture if the lessee, sublessee or tenant for the time being—
breaches any of the provisions thereof, express or implied;
is adjudicated bankrupt; or
being a company, goes into liquidation.
The forfeiture of any lease, sublease or tenancy may be enforced by the person or body for the time being entitled to the reversion thereon either by re-entry onto the land or by action in the Court, but subject in the former case to the provisions of any other written law for the time being in force.
Where any lease, sublease or tenancy has become liable to forfeiture for breach of any of the provisions thereof, the acceptance by the person or body for the time being entitled to the reversion thereon of any rent falling due after the date of the breach, or the doing by that person or body of any other act showing an intention to treat the lease, sublease or tenancy as still subsisting, shall, unless that person or body was not at the time aware of the breach, and could not by reasonable diligence have been so aware, constitute a waiver of the right of forfeiture:
breach
“breach”, in relation to any condition, covenant or agreement, includes any default in the observance thereof;
Provided that this subsection shall not apply to anything done after the commencement of any action for forfeiture.